2003 · mystery · thriller · slasher
Identity
Directed by James Mangold1h 30m2003
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Our read: Identity (2003) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive mystery · thriller · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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